Romance languages: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Iorgu Iordan and John Orr, An Introduction to Romance Linguistics, Its Schools and Scholars, 2nd ed., with a supplement by Rebecca Posner (1970; originally published in Romanian, 1962), describes 19th- and 20th-century scholarship and provides an extensive bibliography on the family as a whole and on individual languages; it may be supplemented by Rebecca Posner and John N. Green (eds.), Trends in Romance Linguistics and Philology, 5 vol. (1980–93). Useful works on the Romance languages in general include W.D. Elcock, The Romance Languages, new and rev. ed. revised by John N. Green (1975), a philologically oriented work; Rebecca Posner, The Romance Languages (1996), a linguistically oriented work; and Martin Harris and Nigel Vincent (eds.), The Romance Languages (1988, reissued 1997). Yakov Malkiel, Essays on Linguistic Themes (1968), includes several articles on the Romance languages and Romance linguistics. On the individual languages, recommended works are L.R. Palmer, The Latin Language (1954, reprinted 1988); Bruno Migliorini, The Italian Language, abridged by T. Gwynfor Griffith (1966, reissued 1984; originally published in Italian, 1960); Peter Rickard, A History of the French Language, 2nd ed. (2003); R. Anthony Lodge, French: From Dialect to Standard (1993); William J. Entwistle, The Spanish Language, Together with Portuguese, Catalan, and Basque, 2nd ed. (1962, reissued 1969); Ralph Penny, A History of the Spanish Language, 2nd ed. (2002); and John M. Lipski, Latin American Spanish (1994).
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Article History
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| Modified link of Web site: Social Sciences LibreTexts - Arabic and Romance - A Comparison. | Jul 18, 2026 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 03, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Social Sciences LibreTexts - Arabic and Romance - A Comparison. | Dec 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - The Romance Advantage The Significance of the Romance Languages as a Pathway to Multilingualism (PDF). | Aug 29, 2025 | ||
| Article updated and revised. | Mar 18, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Turin - IRIS - Typological Diversity within the Romance Languages (PDF). | Feb 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Zurich - The Romanesian Seminar - The Romance languages. | Dec 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Omniglot - Language family: Indo-European: Romance. | Jul 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - The Romance Advantage The Significance of the Romance Languages as a Pathway to Multilingualism. | Feb 15, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Archive - Romance Languages. | Dec 04, 2023 | ||
| Added cross-reference. | Jul 21, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Basque and Romance Languages: Languages with Different Structures (PDF). | Nov 02, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 04, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 01, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 01, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: About World Languages - Romance Branch. | Feb 08, 2019 | ||
| In the Linguistic characteristics section, changed the Portuguese sentence se tivesse bastante dinheiro compraríao to se tivesse bastante dinheiro, eu o compraria. |
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Apr 29, 2016 | |
| In the Linguistic characteristics section, added cross-references, and other changes made. | Nov 30, 2015 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Nov 30, 2015 | ||
| In the Development from Latin section, added cross-references, and other changes made. | Nov 30, 2015 | ||
| In the General considerations section, added cross-references, and other changes made. | Nov 30, 2015 | ||
| In the Conditional clauses section, changed "dacă aş fi avut destui bani, aş cumpărat-o" to "dacă aş fi avut destui bani, aş fi cumpărat-o." | Apr 19, 2012 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Dec 09, 2011 | ||
| Article revised. | Jun 21, 2002 | ||
| Article revised. | May 29, 2002 | ||
| Article revised. | Oct 26, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |